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The Triumphal Entry

The final week of Jesus’ ministry covers a wide range of emotions and events. We see Jesus overturning tables in the temple; people hanging on Christ’s every word; cloak-and-dagger deals made to kill the Messiah; and fervent 11th-hour prayers offered. But before any of that happens, Jesus must first get to Jerusalem. Today, Palm Sunday, […]

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The Top 25 Bible Passages

What were the most-viewed passages on BibleGateway.com in 2009? We’ve crunched the numbers to determine the 25 most popular Bible passages over the last year. Read on to see what they are!

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The Top 20 Old Testament Dinner Guests

A few weeks back on the Facebook Fan page for BibleGateway.com we asked the question, “If you were given the chance to have dinner with someone from the Old Testament who would you choose and why?” As of this writing, 1,278 people have commented with answers ranging from insightful to downright hilarious.

We tabulated the responses from the first 1,000 or so comments and devised a sort of “Top 20 Old Testament Characters” dinner guest list. We’ve posted the first 10 below. You’ll have to head over to the fan page to see the rest.

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The 100 Most Read Bible Verses at Bible Gateway

What are the most popular Bible verses on BibleGateway.com? We thought it would be interesting to find out, so we crunched some numbers from a (relatively) small sample of 25 million Bible passage searches from March and April. Here are the results!

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Bible Gateway mobile use peaks during Sunday church services

When and where do you use the Bible Gateway mobile site? According to recent Bible Gateway statistics, for a lot of you the answer is “during Sunday morning church services”!

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Macedonian New Testament Now Available

The Macedonian New Testament is now online at the Bible Gateway! There are approximately 2 million people who speak Macedonian as their native tongue throughout the world and we’re thrilled that now they can read God’s Word online.

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iGoogle Bible Gateway Gadget

For all you iGoogle users: Trey Meier created an iGoogle gadget that allows you to access the Bible Gateway through your iGoogle page. The Gadget maintains all the functionality of the search bar on Bible Gateway in a compact package. Read on for more information…

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Ads on the Bible Gateway

update: Thanks to everyone who has written to inquire about advertising on the Bible Gateway. We’re not currently accepting any new ads, but when that situation changes, we’ll announce it (and provide more details) on our ad page. As you may have noticed, there are now ads on the Bible Gateway. This is a big […]

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Some Upcoming News

Greetings everyone! We wanted to pop in to let you know that after a lengthy process of prayer and planning, Gospel Communications has decided to start placing ads on our online properties. For years we’ve relied primarily on donations to continue our ministry, and as much as we’d love to keep doing that, it’s just […]

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NASB Audio Bible

We’re always excited to add more ways to experience the Bible. So, we’d like to offer a special thank you to The Lockman Foundation and mp3nasb.com for helping us get the Old and New testament flash versions of the NASB audio up on biblegateway.com. The NASB bible is read by Dale McConachie. Click here to […]

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